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Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant donated a cool $1 million to the Red Cross on Tuesday after the 22-mile long tornado swept through Oklahoma on Monday, killing 24 people including nine children and leaving plenty of residents homeless and fighting for survival. The devastation and wreckage was broad reaching. The news of Durant’s donation [...]

I swear no matter how old Tim Duncan gets, provided he’s healthy, he doesn’t seem to decline in abilities. The man is beating the hell out of father time. But on the lighter side of things, a couple of pretty classic Duncan GIFs from Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals have been floating around [...]

This picture posted by Dwayne Johnson, aka ‘The Rock’, on his twitter handle last night amazes me more and more each time I look at it. For context, you have to understand that The Rock is 6’4″ tall and weighs 260lbs of pure muscle. So needless to say, its not often in life that The [...]

Believe it or not, LeBron James has never had a max contract in his NBA career. He’s not hurting for cash by any stretch, but it’s interesting when you think about it. Sports Illustrated just released their annual list of the highest paid athletes in America and LeBron is second on the list. In fact, [...]

Negotiating with Phil Jackson over a front office or coaching job must be psychological warfare. Whenever you think you’re getting close to getting an edge in the negotiations he would just trot out these puppies, and its over. 13 Championship Rings. Maybe Phil’s negotiation is getting heated, because he posted this on twitter yesterday: [...]

Granted, this isn’t a fashion blog. It’s an NBA basketball blog. But we just can’t help ourselves here. Russell Westbrook and Dwyane Wade have been making a splash with fashion during NBA playoff post-game pressers for a couple years now. But is this jacket Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade wore to the post-game presser last night [...]

NSFW but you HAVE to see this photo from Noah’s ejection tonight. twitter.com/HPbasketball/s… — Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) May 9, 2013 [...]

On the 18th anniversary of the famous Pacers-Knicks battle where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in 9 seconds to defeat the Knicks and gave the choke sign to Knicks Superfan Spike Lee, Miller was feeling playful on twitter yesterday afternoon: Since its the anniversary of the 8pts, maybe I walk by Spike tonight and give [...]

Sometimes the marketing machine in sports can be more creative and cut throat than political attack ads. Check out this creative Chicago Billboard that shows Bulls’ Joakim Noah literally ‘extinguishing’ the Heat’s Lebron James. Clever. (H/t to TheScore/TBJ for the Image) [...]

It will be no surprise to anyone that Lebron James won the 2013 NBA Most Valuable Player award once again. In fact he was as close as you can get to a unanimous vote. Almost perfect… James totaled 1,207 points, including 120 first-place votes, from a panel of 121 voters that consisted of sportswriters and [...]